Check your blood pressure as you have been told. It is rare, but worse chest pain and heart attack can happen after this medicine (amlodipine tablets) is first started or after the dose is raised. The risk may be greater in people who have very bad heart blood vessel disease. Talk with the doctor.

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Rarely, some patients may experience an increase in the frequency or severity of angina or acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) when starting amlodipine. The risk is greater in those with severe obstructive coronary artery disease.